Re: [CBQ] Unknown waycar part 2

["Rupert Gamlen via groups.io" <gamlenz=hotmail.com@groups.io>]

Hol

Yes, I should have restricted my comments to twin truck waycars!

Rupert

 

From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> On Behalf Of HOL WAGNER via groups.io
Sent: Monday, 10 March 2025 11:35 am
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Subject: Re: [CBQ] Unknown waycar part 2

 

Rupert:

 

Well, there was one other small group of center cupola waycars:  the NM-1 four-wheel bobbers, image attached prior to the 1904 renumbering.  And there's a survivor of this class at Pioneer Village in Minden, Neb.

 

Hol

 

Hol

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From: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io> on behalf of Rupert Gamlen via groups.io <gamlenz=hotmail.com@groups.io>
Sent: Saturday, March 8, 2025 6:06 PM
To: CBQ@groups.io <CBQ@groups.io>
Subject: [CBQ] Unknown waycar part 2

 

To those members who have contacted me, fearing that I have lost my marbles, I can assure you that, after 40 years of studying the CB&Q, I think that I can recognise a Burlington foobie (if only because the modeller omitted the ampersand between “CB” and “Q”!). This posting was just slightly tongue-in-cheek.

On a more serious note, the only Burlington waycar I know of with a centre cupola was 14497. It was one of two built in 1890 by St Charles Car Company for the Nebraska & Western (“Pacific Short Line”) as 900-901. The company changed names a few times and ended up as Sioux City & Western in 1899. GN’s Willmar & Sioux Falls operated the line until October 1907 when ownership passed to the CB&Q. The waycar was renumbered to 14497 and was rebuilt in the conventional  Burlington style by 1910, lasting as BN 11007 until 1976.

Rupert Gamlen
Auckland NZ

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